Dan Scott has a new post today about support that's been created on the part of Larry Menard for the ADOdb library - a driver built on top of the ibm_db2_extensions.

The stable release of the ibm_db2 PECL extension for IBM DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby brought a high performing, highly functional database connectivity alternative to Unified ODBC for PHP 4 and 5 users. However, in and of itself a database extension does not enable you to use the many PHP applications that you might want to use. You either have to add a specific driver for each application that implements its own portability layer, or if the application relies on one of the standard database abstraction layers (PEAR DB, MDB2, or ADOdb), then a driver needs to be added to the corresponding database abstraction layer.

The driver mentioned here is a huge leap forward in the support (and, I imagine, popularity) for the use of the IBM DB2 database system. ADOdb is one of the more widely used database abstraction layers out there, and introducing something like this can only help...